#allegiance

The Pledge of Allegiance says, "liberty and justice for all". ↗

— Patricia Schroeder

#justice #liberty #pledge #says

We strain to tell Americans and aliens in this country that there's nothing unique about America, nothing unique about American civilization, nothing that requires their allegiance, nothing of great value that they should sacrifice for. ↗

— Tom Tancredo

#allegiance #america #american #civilization #country

It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake. ↗

— Janos Arany

#allegiance #consistently #face #frenzied #graver

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. ↗

— James Bryce

#also #country #humanity #justice #only

My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#glory #humanity #loyalty #nations #nature

The Pledge of Allegiance is an important expression of our shared values, and it should be preserved in its current form. I fully support the Pledge of Allegiance and urge my colleagues to do the same. ↗

— Judy Biggert

#colleagues #current #current form #expression #form

To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#christ #cross #endure #exclusive #fruit

I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance. ↗

— Henry Clay

#allegiance #any #east #heard #i

When the magistrate says 'That's not a good enough reason my man.' He said 'Excuse me, could I ask you? Have you taken an oath of allegiance to the Monarch?' ↗

— Anthony Holden

#ask #could #enough #excuse #good

Those who liberated the South from Israel must show allegiance to Lebanon. ↗

— Walid Jumblatt

#israel #lebanon #liberated #must #show